Cricket 1898

J une 9, 1898. CRICKET: A 'WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 187 SOUTHEND, MARGATE, RAMSGATE. The General Steam Navigation Co. Will despatch their magnificent new Saloon Steamer, “ E a g le ,'’ or other steamer, from London Bridge Wharf (boat) at................. 9.10 a.m. Fenchurch Street Station (special train) ... 10.15 a.m. Greenwich Pier (boat) ............................... 9.80 a.m. Woolwich (South) Pier (boat) ................. 9.50 a.m. Daily (Sundays included). F A R E S . . From London Bridge Wharf. Greenwich, or South Woolwich Piers. Single. Return. Saloon. Saloon. T o S O U T H E N D . Available during Season. 2 /- 3/- Single, Saloon. Return, Saloon. T o M A R G A T E 3/- available day of issueonly4 - Return available during the season 4 6 T o R AM SG A T E ! 3/6 day of issue only 4/6 FARES via TILBURY—3rd class rail and saloon— from Fenchurch Street Station. T o M A R G A T E 3 /6 available dayof issueonly 4/6 during the season 5/- From Fenchurch Street Station. T o R A M S G A T E 4 /- day of issue only 5/- during the season 5/6 T H E New Palace Steamers, L IM IT E D . “ LA MARGUERITE,” “ ROYAL SOVEREIGN,” “ K0HIN00R,” “ LA BELGIQUE.” Regular Summer Sailings from Old Swan Pier ^London Bridge) and Tilbury (train from Fenchurch Street) to SOUTHEND, MARGATE and RAMSGATE, BOULOGNE and OSTEND. For further particulars and fares, apply to T. E. BARLOW, Director and Manager, 60, King William Street, E.C. C r ic k e t : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.G. THURSDAY, JUNE 9 th , 1898. $a\)titon The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. T h e very latest pronouncement with regard to Eanjitsinhji and the next English team to go to Australia is made by the Melbourne Age, and in view of recent expressions of opinions by English cricketers, it is particularly interesting, not to say surprising. According to the Melbourne Age, Major Wardill, at the request of the Melbourne C.C., invited Prince Eanjitsinhji to undertake the formation of the next English team for Australia, and bring it out at the close of the English season of 1900. The invitation was officially given at Adelaide before the Englishmen sailed for England last month, and Eanjitsinhji promised to cable his decision from Colombo. For some time past his message has been daily expected to arrive, but it appears that there was a case of scarlet fever on board the Ormuz, and it is possible that the Indian prince was in consequence quarantined before landing at Colombo. However, his message has at last come to hand, and is as follows :—“ I accept invitation.—Eanjitsinh j i . ” M r. G. L a cy writes:— “ In addition to the records already noticed, the season has produced others which have escaped the eagle eye of the record hunters :— 1. Tnnnicliffe made the top score in five consecutive matches for his county. Even Grace never accomplished this feat. 2. In five consecutive matches Surrey only lost twenty-eight wickets ! 3. In four consecutive matches the Surrey captain never went to the wicket at a ll!” A q u a in t episode in connection with cricket is mentioned in The Records of the Burgery o f Sheffield, published by Elliott Stock. “ In 1752 the sum of os. was laid out in dispersing papers against the practice of throwing at cooks, and five years later 14s. 6d. was paid to cricket players ‘ to entertain the populace,’ and prevent the former ‘ infamous practise.’ ” The uncommon feat of playing right through an innings was accomplished at the end of last week by both Mr. Warner and Brockweli. The former made 46 out of 75 for Middlesex v. Gloucestershire; the latter 75 out of 158 for Surrey v. Leicestershire. Two other innings were even more remarkable in their way, Mr. Brann scoring 118 out of 190 for Sussex v. Somerset, and Mr. Woods 143 out of 173 for Somerset v. Sussex. T h e remarkable innings played by Mr. Woods recalls another remarkable innings by him on the same ground, against the same county, at the same time of the year. It was on Friday, June 7th, 1895, a day when a boisterous wind blew from end to end of the Hove ground, that Mr. Woods played an innings of 215, after Sussex had put on a total of 518. Four of the Somerset wickets were down for 107 when he began his innings. When he was batting against the wind he was pretty quiet, but with it, he drove nearly every ball with terrific force. His last hundred runs were put on in 55 minutes. I n bowling at the end of the week three performances stand out very clearly. For Gloucestershire v. Middlesex, Mr. Townsend took nine wickets in the first innings for 48, and fifteen in the whole match for 134. He was unsuccessful this week against Kent, but if only he could get rid of the feeling that he is likely to bowl a loose ball he might quite revive hisold accuracyof pitch. Anotherbo wling feat was by Lockwood, who took eight wickets for 44 against Derbyshire for Surrey in the first innings. He came back to form at an exceedingly convenient time for the county. The third feat was that of Hopkins, the new bowler, who took all the five Kent wickets, which fell during the curtailed match against Warwickshire, for 10 runs. I t is but natural that Madras news­ papers should be interested in, and surprised at, the way in which the curious names (to Englishmen) of native cricketers who play in and about the city have recently been commented on all over the world. Eeferring to this apparently remarkable fact, the Nilgiri News says:— Beginning with Cricket, and ‘ Wanderer’s ’ notes in the Sportsman, Colonial cricket writers have taken it up, and in the latest to hand Australian papers, both ‘ Felix’ and ‘ Point ’ refer to cricketers with -whose names we are so familiar in this Presidency. The explanation is simple. It lies in the words “ Beginning with Cricket'” Two or three mistakes in the spelling of the names, as they first appeared in “ Gossip,” have been repeated with singular unanimity in dozens of English and Colonial newspapers. T h e match which was played at Sydney for the benefit of “ N ed” Gregory, who, as was mentioned in last week’s “ Gossip,” has been caretaker of the Sydney ground for 20 years, pro­ duced about £20 in the way of gate money. This must be something like a record—at any rate, it is to be hoped that it is. The war news was being posted in Melbourne, says the Australasian, and an old gentleman, as he tried to force his way through the crowd, said, “ Spanish steamer captured. Ha ! What did I say ? Spaniards not in it. Why, What’s this ? ” —and he crushed in to get a look at a written slip attached to the printed cable — “ Eesult.—America w on ------ Bosh ! Humbug! Confounded childish non­ sense ! ” and he rushed wildly away, amid the laughter of the crowd. Some practical joker had written on the slip :— “ Result: America won by six wickets.” E a n ji t s i n h ji , who has turned up at Simla as Sri Kumar Eanjitsinhji, was an­ nounced to play in the big match of the season at that hillside paradise for the Ma- harajah of Patiala’s X I. v. Simla O.C. The rest of the Maharajah’s team (a correspon­ dent informs me) was to consist of the Maharajah himself, the Kour Sahib, K. M. Mistri, B. Billimoria and D. E. Moody, Gokalchand, Badesi Ram, Nanak Ram, Mansoor, and E . Williams. As my corres­ pondent does not guarantee that he has succeeded in accurately spelling all the names, it would be perhaps as well, in copying this list (if its source is not ac­ knowledged) to make slight alterations here and there for the sake of appearances. Mr. A lfr e d J. Gaston writes :— “ It will interest Sussex readers of Cricket if I point out that a capital portrait of Mr. L. de Montezuma is given in volume 12 of Cricket, p. 433. Prior to Mr. L. de Montezuma joining the ranks of the Kensington Club he was one of the best all round players in the Norwood Club. He played in the fixture Norwood v. Burlington Wanderers in July, 1894, when Mr. Conan Doyle for the Norwood